Play and Share with Samsung Omnia M

Play and Share with Samsung Omnia M

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the Samsung Omnia M (model: GT-S7530), a Windows Phone based smartphone ideal for social and entertainment multi-taskers. The Omnia M will be available starting in Europe and rolled out to other regions.

Featuring top-notch multimedia capabilities and a wide array of social connectivity options, the Omnia M is a phone for non-stop entertainment, content sharing and keeping in touch in whatever way that suits you. It boosts a stunning design, 1GHz performance and a vividly large 4” Super AMOLED display.

The elegant Omnia M complements your style with a minimalist, compact design. It features an ergonomic contoured casing that ensures the device sits comfortably in your hand. An expansive 4.0’’ Super AMOLED display with reduced glare provides a incredible viewing experience and lets you view messaging, multimedia and Web content in brilliant color and clarity—even in daylight conditions—while saving significant battery life.

Keeping up with your social life is easier, fun, and more interactive than ever with the Omnia M. Family Story, Samsung’s cloud-based family network, can be downloaded to let users share family messages, videos and photo slide-shows on a virtual bulletin-board with other Samsung devices. Samsung’s ChatON communication service connects you and users from any phone platform into a single community, enabling spontaneous group chatting and messaging—whether with text, animations or images—in seconds.

The Omnia M wants you to play, share, and access multimedia entertainment. With Samsung AllShare you can play films, games, or any other media direct from your Omnia M to a TV so that family and friends can share the fun. For music lovers, Music Hub offers a Smart DJ feature which automatically generates playlists to suit your mood; and for a touch of creativity, Photo Studio lets you edit your photo images for easy sharing. Windows Live SkyDrive offers 7GB of free online storage for anytime access, storage and sharing of photos, videos, Office documents, and OneNotenotes.

For added social connectivity, Windows Phone’s People Hub unifies all your messaging and contacts into a single portal to instantly sync with Windows Live, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.This ensures you are never left out of touch. The Omnia M also features Samsung’s integrated video-call feature, allowing instant video chats using the phone’s front-facing camera and superior voice audio quality. Keeping in touch has never been easier or more fun.

The Omnia M also offers the quality, consistency and community of the Xbox experience built-in. Access your personal gaming information on Xbox LIVE, including recent games you’ve played, Xbox LIVE leaderboards, and you avatar, Gamerscore and Achievements – all from your phone.

All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, to benefits, design, components, performance, availability and capability of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.

Having used Samsung Omnia 7, I would say Omnia M is a smart move if it is meant for lower end of the scale. I don’t understand why people expect every new phone to come with top of the line hardware. I hope Omnia M doesn’t have a slippery back like Omnia 7. Sad Omnia M did not come with NFC. Now I know there will be a struggle with Samsung apps despite your own device being a Samsung. I get a notification on Omnia 7 to update “Now” app. It won’t update returning an error every time saying my device is not a Samsung. My Omnia 7 is an unlocked device bought overseas as it was never released locally. I don’t expect to find ChatOn and Family Network in Samsung Zone on my Omnia 7 either. This shows how mean Samsung is while I was able to install Nokia Pulse app on my Omnia 7. If I do not find Family Network on my old bones Omnia 7 then my children will upgrade to Lumia 610 and not Omnia M.

Windows 8 only a couple of months far from its release. There will be handsets available running Windows 8 in 3rd, may be 4th quarter of this year. There should be atleast a confirmation whether Windows Phone 7.5 devices will be upgraded to Windows 8 or not. If the devices will be upgraded to Windows 8, then I guess the sales of Windows Phone 7.5 devices will increase.